Fused Frontal Lobes on Prenatal Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The neurology team was consulted about the prognosis of a girl whose prenatal magnetic resonance imaging showed holoprosencephaly. That scan was done because a prenatal ultrasound at 27 weeks' gestation suggested abnormal brain development. The postnatal magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the diagnosis of semilobar holoprosencephaly. At birth, she was small for gestational age and had a cleft lip and palate, hypertelorism, and microphthalmia. She was later diagnosed with panhypopituitarism and epilepsy.Read more ...